Chapter Summaries

Ju Zi and Xu Yunhan witnessed Sun Yunhai's Cloud Illusion Technique and recognized the Civilization Research Institute's hidden potential. Back at the institute, Jiang Hai absorbed three years of research in an enhanced Flame of Civilization, while Xuan Ziwen warned that Jiang Hai's Ninefold Coffin Scroll had made his Level 9 soul tools too weak to help him much.

• Jiang Hai and Sun Yunhai taught Ju Zi and Xu Yunhan about the Abyss through an immersive illusion, and Ju Zi realized Sun Yunhai's technique could be a powerful battlefield asset.
• Ju Zi praised Jiang Hai to Xu Yunhan and urged him to study hard under his teacher.
• Jiang Hai returned to the expanded Civilization Research Institute, where Xuan Ziwen confronted him for not reviewing its research results from the past three years.
• Jiang Hai used the Heaven and Earth Dragon Soul Lamp and Glazed Heart Mirror to rapidly study the institute's documents and help resolve Xuan Ziwen's accumulated research problems.
• Xuan Ziwen explained that Jiang Hai's Ninefold Coffin Scroll had made the Life-Bound Soul Tool Array and Four Symbols Radiance Armor offer him only limited enhancement.

Jiang Hai discussed Soul Tools, the coming Abyss war, and the Divine Realm with Xuan Ziwen, while explaining how gods and divine seats worked. He lent Xuan Ziwen the Heaven and Earth Dragon Soul Lamp for research and left the laboratory.

• Jiang Hai said the Four Symbols Radiance Armor could help Li Qingfeng approach demigod strength, and Xuan Ziwen proposed having Master Weiding negotiate with the White Tiger Family for its Soul Bone.
• Xuan Ziwen suggested Jiang Hai study the Golden Crystal Core and Invincible Shield, while they discussed the institute’s progress and the limited time to prepare for the Abyss.
• Jiang Hai told Xuan Ziwen that the Divine Realm existed in a separate space and explained how divine seats and faith could help humans become gods.
• Jiang Hai handed the Heaven and Earth Dragon Soul Lamp to Xuan Ziwen for research, then left the laboratory after restoring the Flame of Civilization with the Ninefold Coffin Scroll.

Jiang Hai learned that Ye Xishui had likely become a Level 10 Soul Engineer and might possess demigod-level strength, forcing him to reconsider the Holy Spirit Cult as a serious threat. Seeking to grow stronger, he fed energy to White Sea Eagle through their life contract, then swallowed three Divine Soul Pills and was left enduring agony that could kill him.

• Jiang Hai reviewed the research records and deduced that Ye Xishui had likely reached Level 10, with three soul cores and the Death God Tower making her a potential demigod.
• Jiang Hai concluded he needed to strengthen himself by refining a Level 10 Soul Tool, raising his soul power, or finding a way to remove the Golden Seven Absolute Seals.
• Jiang Hai sent energy from the Ninefold Bronze Coffin through the equal life contract to help White Sea Eagle grow stronger.
• Jiang Hai took three Divine Soul Pills at once, and their overwhelming pain began tearing at his body, soul, and consciousness.

Jiang Hai advanced to level 84 while the Civilization Research Institute assembled powerful Soul Engineer Legions and prepared for the Abyss invasion. As more than a million troops massed along the Ming Dou Mountain Range, the leaders of the Douluo Allied Army Command faced the Sun Moon Empire’s formidable new strength.

• Jiang Hai reached level 84 after taking three Divine Soul Pills, then resumed teaching and cultivating at the Civilization Academy.
• Over two months, the Civilization Research Institute formed five Soul Engineer Legions and the Extreme Ice Angel Legion, while Jiang Hai continued training the Battle Aura Transcendent Legion.
• The Sun Moon Empire concentrated more than five hundred thousand soldiers and nearly eight Soul Engineer Legions at Mingdou Fortress as the Abyss invasion approached.
• The Star Luo Empire and Dou Ling Empire deployed eight hundred thousand soldiers along the Ming Dou Mountain Range, joined by sect experts and thirty Soul Master legions.
• Shrek Academy, the Clear Sky Sect, the Body Sect, and the Three Great Empires established the Douluo Allied Army Command, with Shrek coordinating the experts and the White Tiger Duke commanding the army.
• A Clear Sky Sect representative praised the Civilization Research Institute’s role in rapidly advancing the Sun Moon Empire’s strength and soul guidance technology.

The Douluo Allied Army debated whether to attack the Sun Moon Empire before the Abyss invasion, while Shrek Academy and the Clear Sky Sect urged everyone to wait. One month later, the Abyss appeared above the continent, and Di Tian joined Huo Yuhao as the armies prepared for the threat.

• Du Busi and Sky Sun Douluo argued that the allied forces should not fear the Sun Moon Empire and should strike before it could act.
• Xuan Zi and Niu Tian opposed starting a human war, insisting that the alliance wait a month for the Abyss invasion and resist internal conflict.
• Dai Hao pledged to defend the Star Luo Empire, and Vina invited Xiao Xiao to demonstrate her abilities before the gathered experts.
• A month later, humans and soul beasts across the continent sensed a menace, and Titled Douluos rose into the sky as the Abyss arrived.
• Di Tian left the Lake of Life, traveled through a spatial rift, and appeared beside Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong in the Ming Dou Mountain Range.
• The Abyss army appeared in the sky, confirming its existence, while the Sun Moon Empire's evil soul masters eagerly anticipated devouring its creatures.

As the Abyss descended on the Douluo Continent, Ju Zi prepared the allied forces for battle. A black-robed god wielding a dark-red halberd shattered the defenders’ combined attack, leaving the continent’s living beings desperate for a divine champion.

• Ju Zi issued battle orders through the Heavenly Mirrors and learned that the Civilization Research Institute’s legions and the Grand Tutor to the Crown Prince would arrive when the battle began.
• The Abyss’s pressure struck, and a dark-red halberd shattered the sky; its spatial fissures swallowed at least a thousand soldiers before Ju Zi activated Mingdou Fortress’s linked defenses.
• Niu Tian, Tai Tan, Di Tian, and dozens of other powerhouses joined forces to attack the halberd, including Ye Yulin and Ye Xishui with their Level 10 Soul Tools.
• The halberd swept aside the combined attacks, severely injuring nearly all the Super Douluos and prompting Di Tian to identify their enemy as a god.
• A black-robed man appeared beyond the tear in space, and the people of the Douluo Continent prayed for their own divine beings to save them.

The Abyss army invaded the Douluo Continent while its experts battled the continent’s strongest fighters. The allied armies’ firepower checked the invasion, but the Douluo Allied Army came under heavier pressure than the Sun Moon Empire’s forces.

• Niu Tian declared that the God of the Abyss could not strike across the Abyss, but the God ordered his army to invade through the rift.
• Di Tian and the other experts fought the Abyss leaders, while Wudi realized the God of the Abyss had made him a sacrifice to open the invasion.
• Wudi urged his army to attack and devour the enemy as hundreds of thousands of Abyss troops charged the allied defensive lines.
• Ju Zi ordered the Sun Moon Empire’s soul cannon batteries to fire, while the Tang Sect’s Godly Zhuge Crossbow Cannons supported the Douluo Allied Army.
• Ma Xiaotao killed an Abyss expert with her divine fire and helped a wounded Super Douluo defeat his opponent.
• The Abyss army focused its ground assault on the Douluo Allied Army, whose weaker firepower left its positions under greater pressure.

Ye Xishui killed the Witch Queen and turned the tide further in the allied army’s favor, while commanders assessed the Abyss threat and the Sun Moon Empire’s advantage. Dai Hao argued that the Abyss invasion was an open stratagem benefiting the stronger Sun Moon Empire and urged the allies to develop their soul guidance technology.

• Ma Xiaotao and the allied powerhouses strengthened their advantage against the Abyss army as Evil Soul Masters harvested Abyss Creatures.
• Ye Xishui used the Death God Tower to kill the Witch Queen, absorb her soul, and claim her corpse for the Death God Demon Puppet.
• Ye Xishui joined the attack on the Abyss army, and other powerful fighters defeated their opponents and entered the battle below.
• In the command tent, Xu Jiujiu suspected that the Civilization Research Institute and the Sun Moon Empire were exploiting the invasion, but Dai Hao judged that the empire intended to weaken both sides before striking.
• Dai Hao said the allies could not redirect the Abyss army toward the Sun Moon Empire and urged them to develop soul guidance technology with help from Shrek Academy, the Clear Sky Sect, and the Civilization Research Institute.

As the Abyss Army’s powerful fighters fell, the Bone Demon King revealed the plan to build a white bone city and hold the Abyss Passage until reinforcements arrived. Wudi and the remaining Abyss fighters burned their souls to delay the defenders, while Ju Zi watched the human factions’ reluctance to end the war and foresaw the danger ahead.

• Dai Hao and Xu Jiujiu discussed the Sun Moon Empire’s superior soul guidance technology, and Xu Jiujiu vowed to accelerate Star Luo Empire research.
• The Abyss Army abandoned its assault on Mingdou Fortress and pushed the Douluo Allied Army’s defensive line back as its forces in the sky dwindled.
• The Bone Demon King exposed his plan, used Bone Transformation to build a white bone city by the Abyss Rift, and declared his intent to become the new emperor of the 108th Abyss Layer.
• Di Tian attacked the city, while Wudi and the remaining Abyss powerhouses burned their souls to hold back the Douluo Continent’s fighters.
• Ju Zi observed that the Holy Spirit Cult and Three Great Empires were concealing their strength and failing to stop the Abyss’s plan, and she feared humanity would regret its arrogance.

As the allied armies fought the Abyss, their leaders prioritized harvesting corpses and prolonging the war, while Huo Yuhao, Tang Wutong, and Shrek’s powerhouses attacked the city of white bones. Ma Xiaotao’s Phoenix Nirvana devastated the Bone Emperor, and Zhang Lexuan carried her away before the Bone Emperor could retaliate.

• Ju Zi ordered the Sun Moon forces to defend Mingdou Fortress in shifts and sent the Fire Phoenix and Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps to harvest Abyss corpses, prompting Dai Hao to send Douluo Allied Army troops to do the same.
• Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong discussed the allied armies’ selfish motives, then killed a soul-burning Lich powerhouse with Withering Amid Brilliance, Golden Road, and the Golden Dragon Spear.
• Huo Yuhao, Tang Wutong, Ma Xiaotao, Zhang Lexuan, and other fighters charged toward the city of white bones after defeating their opponents.
• Ma Xiaotao’s Phoenix Dances Across the Nine Heavens melted the city’s bone shield, while Zhang Lexuan cut apart the bone spears attacking them.
• Zhang Lexuan used Blood Moon Eclipse and Ma Xiaotao unleashed Phoenix Nirvana against the Bone Emperor, melting much of his body and killing thousands of Bone Demons.
• Zhang Lexuan carried the weakened Ma Xiaotao away, knowing that Phoenix Nirvana would leave her physically vulnerable for at least three months.

Zhang Lexuan and the allied fighters struggled against the Bone Emperor and the giant formed from White Bone City until the Civilization Research Institute’s enormous warship arrived. Its linked Soul Cannons destroyed the bone giant, leaving the Abyss Overlord unable to save it.

• Zhang Lexuan was wounded by the bone giant, and Yan Shaozhe, Huo Yuhao, Tang Wutong, Du Busi, Tai Tan, and Ye Xishui intervened to protect her and hold the giant back.
• An enormous steel warship named Civilization arrived above the Ming Dou Mountain Range, shocking the allied forces and Ju Zi halted the defenses from attacking it.
• Jiang Hai and Xuan Ziwen ordered the warship’s linked Soul Cannons to fire on the bone giant, melting away much of its body and prompting the Bone Emperor to beg the Abyss Overlord for help.
• The Abyss Overlord erased the first cannon blasts, but thunder disturbed him as Xuan Ziwen ordered all three main cannon chambers to fire together.
• The combined attack of a hundred and eight Soul Cannons engulfed and melted the bone giant before the Abyss Overlord could intervene.

Civilization’s main guns devastated the Bone Demons but failed to kill the Bone Emperor, so Jiang Hai sent Li Qingfeng to fight him. As their duel escalated, Di Tian swallowed Wudi, displaying strength that shocked the other Limit Douluo.

• Civilization’s coordinated main-gun salvo shattered the White Bone Giant, severely wounded the Bone Emperor, and destroyed the souls of over a hundred thousand Bone Demons.
• Xuan Ziwen ordered Civilization to bombard the Abyss Army with soul guidance rays and missiles, while Jiang Hai sent Li Qingfeng to confront the Bone Emperor.
• Li Qingfeng used his sword intent and soul tool technique to overwhelm the Bone Emperor, who summoned a formation of 108 White Bone Swords.
• Li Qingfeng unleashed Sword Qi Cave Heaven as the Bone Emperor prepared to fight with his White Bone Sword Formation.
• Di Tian crushed Wudi’s Cursed Witchcraft, swallowed him, and shocked the watching Limit Douluo with his power.

Li Qingfeng killed the Bone Emperor, and Jiang Hai absorbed the corpse to break through to Level 85. After the battle, Jiang Hai warned the gathered leaders that the Abyss had 108 layers and offered the Civilization Research Institute’s help in exchange for Abyss corpses.

• Li Qingfeng trapped the Bone Emperor’s flying swords in his Sword Qi Cave Heaven and killed him with Sword Kill.
• Jiang Hai placed the Bone Emperor’s corpse in his Lie Yan Coffin and broke through to Level 85.
• Li Qingfeng gave Jiang Hai 108 White Bone Flying Swords and asked him to make a flying-sword soul tool, while Jiang Hai persuaded him to keep the Bone Emperor’s corpse for his cultivation.
• Jiang Hai led the Civilization Research Institute’s experts to meet the assembled leaders and explained that the Abyss had 108 layers, though its layers were difficult to unite for an invasion.
• Jiang Hai urged the leaders to unite and offered to help condense blood qi soul cores in exchange for three Abyss expert corpses at the Titled Douluo level or above.

Jiang Hai explained how the allied forces could earn contribution points by turning in Abyss corpses and exchange them for the Civilization Research Institute’s technology and resources. Niu Tian tested a Heavenly Mirror and successfully obtained a Soul Tool blueprint, leaving the assembled leaders impressed by the Institute’s technological lead.

• Jiang Hai outlined the military merit system and said Abyss corpses could be exchanged for knowledge, Soul Tools, and other resources.
• Jiang Hai explained that Heavenly Mirrors could access the exchange catalog, while Heavenly Mirror technology and blood qi soul cores required substantial contribution points.
• Du Busi objected to the prices, but Jing Hongchen and Fan Yu defended the value of Heavenly Mirror technology.
• Niu Tian exchanged an Abyss Titled Douluo’s corpse for a Heavenly Mirror and explored its features with Xuan Ziwen’s help.
• Niu Tian turned in another Abyss corpse, used the Heavenly Mirror to exchange for a Soul Tool blueprint, and praised the Civilization Research Institute’s technology.

Jiang Hai assessed the Civilization’s role in strengthening the Douluo Continent against the Abyss and prepared to advance his own power by condensing more soul cores. He began channeling Spatial Magic into his middle dantian to form a soul core.

• Jiang Hai returned to the Civilization and considered how its magic arrays and Soul Guidance Technology could help the continent withstand the Abyss invasion.
• Jiang Hai weighed the Sun Moon Empire’s growing strength and the Douluo Three Kingdoms’ chance to gain blood qi soul cores from Abyss corpses.
• Jiang Hai decided to pursue multiple soul cores, drawing on texts from the Longqinus Continent that identified eight possible locations in the human body.
• Jiang Hai chose to condense a Spatial Magic soul core first, leaving a Soul Power soul core for a later attempt.
• Jiang Hai summoned the Heaven and Earth Dragon Soul Lamp and began moving Spatial Magic from his lower dantian to his middle dantian.

Jiang Hai successfully condensed a spatial soul core, then immediately risked forming a third soul power core despite the violent interference from his existing cores. The three cores achieved isotopic resonance, raising him to level 87 and the pinnacle of the Douluo Continent even with the Golden Seven Absolute Seals still in place.

• Jiang Hai stabilized the blood qi soul core with the Fate-Reversing Blade and formed a spatial soul core, reaching middle level 86.
• Jiang Hai began condensing a third soul power core as his blood qi and spatial cores violently interfered.
• Jiang Hai endured the strain with his mental power, body, Life-Bound Soul Tool Array, and the Heaven and Earth Dragon Soul Lamp's support.
• Jiang Hai stabilized the third soul core, and the three cores achieved isotopic resonance as nearby Limit Douluos sensed his brief surge of power.
• Jiang Hai's soul power reached level 87, leaving him at the pinnacle of the Douluo Continent despite the Golden Seven Absolute Seals.

After condensing three Soul Cores, Jiang Hai sensed Di Tian preparing to face his 900,000-year Heavenly Tribulation and traveled to Mingdu to retrieve the Demon Body. When he opened its coffin, the Demon Body awakened a more powerful version of his Soul Refining Art, causing all eight of his Soul Rings to surge.

• Jiang Hai emerged from seclusion with three Soul Cores and learned that Di Tian was about to undergo his 900,000-year Heavenly Tribulation.
• Jiang Hai declined to visit the Star Dou Great Forest and told Li Qingfeng he would go to Mingdu to retrieve something.
• Jiang Hai used Spatial Power to reach the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and entered the Illustrious Virtue Hall's Thirteen Research Institute.
• Jiang Hai opened the Demon-Sealing Coffin and sensed a familiar aura from the Demon Body.
• Jiang Hai activated the Soul Refining Art, causing his Ninefold Bronze Coffin Martial Soul to appear and all eight of his Soul Rings to surge.

Jiang Hai absorbed the Holy Emperor’s inheritance, turning all eight of his Soul Rings into hundred-thousand-year rings and learning the true nature of Martial Souls and the Soul Refining Art. After realizing he could use Abyss Creatures as future targets for the art, he sealed the Holy Emperor’s body in the Kunpeng Mystic Coffin and named it the Holy Emperor’s Tomb.

• The Holy Emperor’s Demon Body transformed all eight of Jiang Hai’s Soul Rings into hundred-thousand-year rings, alarming Soul Engineers across the Illustrious Virtue Hall and Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Jiang Hai understood that Martial Souls were rules that grew by absorbing Soul Beast rules, and he recognized the Holy Emperor’s Soul Refining Art as a method of evolving Soul Rings toward godhood.
• Jiang Hai bowed to the Holy Emperor and resolved to improve the Soul Refining Art by plundering the rules of Abyss Creatures instead of Soul Beasts.
• The coffins rearranged the Golden Demon Empress’s body and the Holy Emperor’s corpse, and Jiang Hai sealed the Holy Emperor inside the ninth coffin.
• Jiang Hai named the Kunpeng Mystic Coffin the Holy Emperor’s Tomb and left the Holy Emperor’s body undisturbed.

Jiang Hai visited the Illustrious Virtue Hall, exchanged a Level 9 Invincible Shield for the Demon Body, and then went to the Clear Sky Sect to summon two secluded seniors to help fight the Abyss. When Tai Tan attacked him, Jiang Hai overpowered him with his Icefire Golden Body and intensified gravity, leaving Tai Tan bleeding and unable to advance.

• Jiang Hai appeared inside the Illustrious Virtue Hall, where Su Qian and the Soul Engineers confronted him, and Lin Jiayi recognized him as Jiang Hai.
• Jiang Hai left a Level 9 Invincible Shield in exchange for the Demon Body, then vanished using spatial power; Su Qian ordered the incident reported to His Majesty.
• Jiang Hai arrived at the Clear Sky Sect and asked Tai Tan to summon two seniors living in seclusion to help face the Abyss invasion.
• Tai Tan refused and attacked Jiang Hai in his Titan Giant Ape form, but Jiang Hai stopped his punch with his Icefire Golden Body.
• Tai Tan used his True Body and Gravity Domain, but Jiang Hai's Magnetic Field amplified the gravity and stopped Tai Tan's advance, making him spit blood.

Jiang Hai fought his way into the Clear Sky Sect to call its two hidden divine beings into action against the Abyss. Tang Hao and Ah Yin emerged, but Tang Hao challenged Jiang Hai’s right to demand their help and blamed him for bringing the Abyss to Douluo Continent.

• Jiang Hai overpowered Tai Tan, trapped him inside his Magnetic Cave Heaven, and fought off the Clear Sky Sect elders and their Level 9 Mountain God Cannon.
• Jiang Hai sealed the Clear Sky Sect disciples’ martial souls and soul power until Tang Hao and Ah Yin appeared and freed them.
• Jiang Hai identified Tang Hao and Ah Yin as divine beings, and the Clear Sky Sect disciples recognized them as their ancestors.
• Tang Hao said the Abyss had found Douluo Continent because of Jiang Hai and argued that he and Ah Yin could not resist a First-Level Main God while limited to Quasi-God strength.
• Jiang Hai admitted his role in drawing the Abyss but urged the pair to defend the continent, asking them to emerge from seclusion or ascend.